| Even if I only travel to Blackpool I am harassed by all manner of insects that want to suck every last drop of blood out of me. |
| One of the best is Ganga Garden, overlooking a lagoon formed by the River Bentota and run, improbably enough, by a Blackpool landlady. |
| If your Blackpool travel experience involves children, Louis Tussaud's waxworks is a nice place for taking them out. |
| Oh, and a wrap of whizz for those all-nighters at Wigan Casino or the Mecca in Blackpool. |
| A Blackpool group has organised an Afro-Caribbean night in the town to raise awareness of the hereditary blood disorder, sickle-cell anaemia. |
| I am not being drawn into a slanging match with the defenders of horse-drawn landaus on Blackpool Prom. |
